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Eruption
by Michael Crichton
Two of the world's most popular and prolific modern authors team up for a thriller about a history-making eruption in Hawaii that threatens to reveal a huge secret the US military has been hiding for decades.
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Swan song
by Elin Hilderbrand
When a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious and overly extravagant Richardsons, social mayhem ensues in the tight-knit Nantucket community, but when their house burns to the ground and their most essential employee goes missing, the entire island must save the day—and their way of life.
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Swift River
by Essie Chambers
In 1987, the only Black person in all Swift River after her Pop disappeared seven years ago, Diamond Newberry, receiving a letter from a relative she's never met, is introduced to two generations of African American Newberry women, gaining a sense of her place in the world and in her family.
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The midnight feast : a novel
by Lucy Foley
During the opening weekend of The Manor, a luxe coastal retreat built on top of old secrets, those in attendance all have an agenda but not everyone will survive.
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Clete
by James Lee Burke
After his car is ransacked at a local car wash, Private investigator Clete Purcel probes into a group of Mexican cartel thugs trafficking fentanyl into New Orleans the latest installment of the long-running series following A Private Cathedral.
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Shelterwood : a novel
by Lisa Wingate
In 1990 Oklahoma, Valerie, a Law Enforcement Ranger reporting for duty at Horsethief Trail National Park, is immediately faced with the long-hidden burial site of three children, and working with the neighboring Choctaw Tribal Police, unearths old secrets and the tragic and deadly history of the land itself.
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The rom-commers
by Katherine Center
Hired to write a rom-com screenplay with her hero, movie-writing legend Charlie Yates, Emma, arriving in LA, discovers he's a jerk and doesn't even believe in love and refusing to go down without a fight, she decides to write her dreams into reality whether he likes it or not.
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The comfort of ghosts
by Jacqueline Winspear
In 1945 London, psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs visits a vacant Belgravia mansion where she finds four adolescent orphans and a demobilized, gravely ill soldier and as she tries to bring comfort to them all, she is forced to examine her own painful past and the beliefs she has always accepted as true.
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Stuart Woods' Smolder
by Brett Battles
When he is drawn into a case involving a ring of art thieves, which has links to his own mother's paintings, Stone Barrington must draw out a familiar enemy and face down his most vindictive threat yet.
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Middle of the night : a novel
by Riley Sager
Returning to his childhood home 30 years after his friend Billy's disappearance, Ethan, plagued by strange occurrences, sets out to find out what really happened that night and, reunited with former friends and neighbors, finds his investigation leading him to a mysterious institute where clandestine research is performed.
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This summer will be different
by Carley Fortune
When her best friend flees Toronto a week before her wedding, Lucy follows her Prince Edward Island to help her through her crisis and resist the one man she's never been able to, but his flirty quips have been replaced with something new, making her wonder if her heart is still safe.
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How to age disgracefully
by Clare Pooley
The quirky members of the Senior Citizen's Social Club join forces with the tiny members of the daycare next store to thwart the city council's planned sale of the building housing both centers.
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Horror movie : a novel
by Paul Tremblay
The only surviving cast member of a notorious, disturbing 1993 art house horror movie joins the remake, but begins having trouble distinguishing between reality and film in the new novel by the author of The Pallbearers Club.
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Getting to Know Death : A Meditation
by Gail Godwin
The three-time National Book Award finalist recounts her long path to recovery after a major injury at age 86 and discusses the lessons she has learned as she enters the twilight of her life.
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What this comedian said will shock you
by Bill Maher
Inspired by the“editorial” he delivers at the end of each episode of Real Time, this hilarious work of commentary about American life speaks exactly to the moment we're in, covering free speech, cops, drugs, race, religion, cancel culture, the media, show biz, romance, health and more.
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Once upon a time : the captivating life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy
by Elizabeth Beller
Drawing on in-depth research and exclusive interviews with those closest to her, a journalist explores the real Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy behind the tabloid headlines and frenzy amidst today's cultural reckoning about the way our media treats women, revealing a multifaceted woman worthy of our attention regardless of her husband and untimely death. Illustrations.
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I curse you with joy
by Tiffany Haddish
The comedian, actress and best-selling author presents a collection of essays chronicling the lessons learned on her journey to superstardom, from the legacy of her childhood trauma to difficulties being a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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The end of everything : how wars descend into annihilation
by Victor Davis Hanson
A military historian narrates a series of sieges and sackings that span the age of antiquity to the conquest of the New World, depicting war's drama, violence and folly and delivering a sobering call to heed the lessons of obliteration to avoid catastrophe once again.
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Paradise of the damned : the obsessive quest for El Dorado, the legendary city of gold
by Keith Thomson
An ambitious courtier, confidant to Queen Elizabeth and El Dorado fanatic, Sir Walter Raleigh, released from the Tower of London, journeys across an ocean to find the fabled city, gambling his painstakingly acquired wealth, hard-won domestic bliss and his very life, while back home, his rivals plotted his demise. Illustrations.
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Trippy : the peril and promise of medicinal psychedelics
by Ernesto Londoäno
In this deeply researched and brilliantly reported account of a game-changing industry on the rise, a veteran New York Times journalist, drawing on his own personal experiences, explores the booming field of medicinal psychedelics and the many psychedelic enthusiasts who are upending our understanding of trauma and healing.
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